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Post by rickcr42 on May 10, 2006 23:35:34 GMT
Grew up with 45's mostly but around 1968/69 took the plunge and purchased my first LP which was Iron Butterflies "Inna Godda Divida",one song for the entire duration of side A. The B side sucked but the main cut ruled and I still marvel at the drum solo. After that I was hooked and followed the purchase in rapid successsion with Crosby,Still & Nash....the Volunteers album by Jefferson Airplane,an LP from Ten years after (A Space In Time maybe ? ) and some Three Dog Night. became a weekly ritual until I was conned into the whole 8-Track thing and switched my weekly purchases to that format.This lasted for years even though a more aggravating medium this planet has never known and the highways and byways of the U.S.A. were strewn with miles and miles of magnetic tape but the choices for "on the go" music were 8-Tracks,AM radio or nothing. Being a poor working teenager buying both an LP and an 8-Track version of the same album was out so for years I would buy three or four tapes every friday and when the cassete was introduced to autosound then FM radio came of age I was stuck with THOUSANDS of eight track tapes ! Not only were now obsolete,that not only took up funds that would have been spent on LPs instead leaving major holes in my colloection but once the machine burned up and the players no longer being made had zero use for all these tapes so we took them out back and shot the shit out of them with a 12 guage. The cassette was a dream medium.Buy the LP for the main collection,record the tape for the car and if it went FUBAR record another and there was no more worrying about which half of the nightmare relationship who took what tape that day as two copies were no more hassle than one Now we have "perfect music forever" and yet I find myself still listening to my LPs and tapes more than my "perfect" discs" which I find to be seriously lacking in the "flesh and blood" area of the music.Maybe its me,maybe nostalgia,maybe we had it more right then............................
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Post by xerxes on May 11, 2006 0:12:33 GMT
I'm not entirey sure which, but my first music purchase was either the Golden Brown single by the Stranglers or the B52's Wild Planet album on cassette.
Talking of cars and cassettes, I often used to make up compilations of favourite tracks from LPs. Making a 90 minute compilation from vinyl took hours as you would cue up every track, frig about adjusting the level, then cue it up again to record it. I spent a very long evening creating a full 90 minute compilation of all my favourite Led Zeppelin tracks. Next day, the cassette player in the car decides to chew it up half way through side one - I was not a happy bunny!
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Post by rickcr42 on May 11, 2006 0:56:13 GMT
That is the bad news.The good news is the cassette unlike the sealed (actually had the lable go over the seam and the plastic was glued many times !) 8-Track could usually be salvaged by either opening it up and repairing the damage or just using a pencil eraser in the take up reel to wind the tape back in. Unless you had chewed edges on the tape itself the cassette would normally be no worse off than before the accidental suicide attempt. Thos POS eight tracks on the other hand were crap from the start and you had to play with the pressure pad that would deform after every ten or so playings or the tape went nut boy and once that happened it was time to either YANK out the miles of tape inside the player or remove the player and then use sugergical precision to try and extricate the tape without harm which meant many of us mounted our players on the "hump" with the cover screws loose....just in case the worst was when the player was dash mounted and after a tape was eaten,always a favorite one BTW never crap tapes,there would still be loops around the capstan which meant every single tape played would also be eaten until the deck uninstalled and the excess tape removed. I don't miss that bastard format one bit and in fact would love to strangle the prick that came up with it for costing me so much loot and personal aggravation BLAMMO !....next !
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Post by gns on May 19, 2006 18:39:35 GMT
1969, David Bowie, Space Oddity.
Why did I buy that first ever 45? Absolutely no idea!
Did I understand the lyrics? No!
But it started me off on vinyl, and I've been with it ever since.
Over the last couple of years I started really listening to lyrics and finding out about what was really happening to my life. Perhaps it was the horror of finding out nearly 50 "years had got behind" me and "nobody told" me "when to run" I'd "missed the starting gun" (Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon).
I reckon I now get the gist of those early Bowie lyrics, as I find myself surrounded by piles of vinyl albums (but not a really massive collection by some peoples standards) collected over the last 37 years - and most seem to be saying exactly the same thing.
I guess it's that late 60's/early 70's flower power thing most people see as corny these days, but I don't. I think people have lost touch with reality and are living in a very false world. I guess they've been doing that for centuries but today it just seems a pretend world where toys matter most to the individual, and power matters most to those with the right budget. I don't think I belong in such a place, nor do the lyricists of the albums in my collection. I guess those circles of black vinyl have spoken to me in a big way in recent times.
The great thing is that now I can make sense of my life, but I find it impossible to make sense of the world, although I can see behind the curtain and fully understand what's going on! I still can't make any sense of it.
G
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Post by rickcr42 on May 20, 2006 1:02:29 GMT
How about a "lead free" song from the past:
"say can I have some of your purple berries ?"
"yes,I been eating them,for six,seven,weeks now havn't got sick once"
"probably keep us both alive"
***instrumental bridge***
"Wooden ships,on the water very free (and easy)"
"easy you the it's supposed to be"
"silver people on the shoreling let us be"
"talkin' 'bout very free....and eeeasyyyy.........."
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Post by PinkFloyd on May 21, 2006 20:00:25 GMT
My first "ever" recording purchase was Mouldy old dough by lieutenant pigeon www.lieutenantpigeon.co.uk/ I remember it like it was yesterday and spent all my pocket money on it. I soon progressed to Floyd, Santana, Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, Tabgerine dream etc. etc. and can only assume I was slightly "brain dead" when I felt the urge to by "mouldy old dough".. pure shite on a stick
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Post by cosmopragma on Jun 15, 2006 22:55:54 GMT
My first LP was "Burn" by Deep Purple. I've just googled it and found a 30th anniversary edition. Actually music was really my first love, this was before I got interested in girls. I still have this LP lying around here for sentimental reasons.I haven't listened to it for decades. It's totally worn out and my tastes have changed anyway.
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Post by Stormy on Jun 16, 2006 11:33:20 GMT
I suppose I had better embarass myself, and make you lot feel old again to compensate. If I go down, I'm taking you all with me!
"Alisha Rules The World" by Alisha's Attic, way back in 1997.
I bought it on CD even though I didn't actually own a CD player - I got my Dad to copy it onto tape for me and used that until I got my useless Aiwa all-in-one "hi-fi" six months later.
It's pop music, but I still think it's well written, and I still listen to it on a fairly regular basis 9 years on. And it's STILL more interesting (or do I mean predictable?) than girls.
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Post by jelosno on Jul 10, 2006 11:16:47 GMT
I had tapes of copied over LP's of friends until I bought my first own LP which was 'Pyramid' by the Alan Parsons Project.
The ones that followed where, on the next day, 'Bat Out Of Hell' by Meat Loaf, and I think it was some Status Quo LP that was pretty new at that time.
Ah, just remembered that I had bought a Status Quo tape before I went to LPs called 'Hello' as far as I remember. It had one track I still like very much: Roll Over Lay Down.
I also bought the Iron Butterfly LP mentioned above. It was for sure in my first 20 LPs ever bought. The drum solo was the sole reason for this purchase
Stefan
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Post by rickcr42 on Jul 10, 2006 14:49:27 GMT
that drum solo wrecked a whole generation of "would be stars" in my area when every single local bar band drummer would would try to do something similiar,mostly failing,almost always boring because they ran out of ideas FAST. I also noticed back then the rest of the band would take the oppurtunity to grab a couple of brews and chat with the ladies while their drummer was on stage trying to show off.something that seems unfair but what you deserve for trying to be special.While the drummer sweats from laboring under the lights his buds are sipping a cool bear and setting up dates for later
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Post by Stormy on Jul 10, 2006 20:23:59 GMT
I think they're known as "Polar". I may be wrong. A Bipolar bear would be a bad thing to meet in a dark alley, but would likely sound better than a normal polar bear if he's stood in your signal path (e.g. between you and a speaker). If the DC offset is small, you can remove the bear completely.
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Post by rickcr42 on Jul 10, 2006 22:18:32 GMT
unless the "bear" is more cub than grown no matter the size then it is training time ! Make that bitch ride a bike and LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!! or what the mood swing of the moment happened to be or if HE was up to tangling with a Rick Bear or maybe........ PETA would be after my ass once I was done dealing with any bear dumb enough to stand in my signal path once the sordid details got out ! HUP ! better yet if high enough the jolt alone will make him take a hike back to the woods unless that particular bear is not only bipolar but masochistic as well,been known,rare but known dude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------may have to actually look to the spelling check feature or storm dude will bust me all over the forums and we can't have that EDITED FOR SPELLING
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Post by Nigel on Jul 10, 2006 23:55:22 GMT
My first purchases were,
LP- Queen "A Night At The Opera" 1975 Single - Elton John "Pinball Wizard" I seem to recall that was about 1975 as well.
Best,
Nigel
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Post by lini on Jan 30, 2007 1:23:56 GMT
I think the first music on lp I've bought myself was Phil Collins' "Face Value" - while the first one I wanted and got as a present from mum was Alan Parsons' "Tales of Mystery and Imagination".
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
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Post by Sol on Jan 30, 2007 14:48:45 GMT
My first purchases were, LP- Queen "A Night At The Opera" 1975 That was my first LP ... my first record purchase was .... don't laugh .... "Sara Brightman, Hot Gossip - I lost my heart to a startship trooper". I wish it had been something entirley more cool - but hey ... I was young, and I was stood in the Record Shop clutching a voucher from my Grandfather. It was a pressure situation OK! Pretty soon moved on to a tape walkman, and came back to HiFi via CDs played through a crappy Sony CD player coupled to a Cyrus II and some B&W 601S2 when I bought my 1st house. BTW Graham ... there's a few of us out here with those same thoughts ... I find myself "playing the game" mostly .. and enjoying the real world away from work, and the wider political society! I only hope there's still enough freedom left in the world for my daughter to find herself as she grows into a young woman. As she reaches school age, I'm starting to wonder if jacking in the London thing and finding some space in the North, a bit of land, and a simpler life, might be more in order!
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Post by rickcr42 on Jan 31, 2007 1:27:51 GMT
First LP I ever heard was a Red Foxx party album and brother,it was RAW and that waaaaay before Eddie Murphy or Andrew Dice Clay were considered to be breaking the boundries
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Post by theadmans on Feb 2, 2007 17:10:17 GMT
When I was about eleven years of age I went into my local Library in Leicester and found that they were selling a slightly battered copy of Kraftwerk's Autobahn LP on the Vertigo label. I thought it looked interesting so I paid 50p and rushed home to listen to my first album.
I remember putting the vinyl on my Dad's Garrard deck and listening through his Sennheiser headphones. I was transfixed and this started a 30 odd year addiction to music.
Have to say the sound on that old 1974 vinyl was way better than the copy of Autobahn I bought on CD (around 1984). I recently listened to a copy of the Kraftwerk Remasters (as part of the The Catalogue release). Although the Remastered Autobahn is way better than the early 80's CD I'm still convinced it's not as good as that old 50p vinyl purchase!!
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Post by Sol on Feb 9, 2007 13:35:50 GMT
When I was about eleven years of age I went into my local Library in Leicester and found that they were selling a slightly battered copy of Kraftwerk's Autobahn LP on the Vertigo label. I thought it looked interesting so I paid 50p and rushed home to listen to my first album. How weird is that .. I decided I'd stick Kraftwerk on, for the 1st time in several years, and then I fire up this thread about 2 mins into the 1st track. Weird!
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Post by Fergus on Feb 15, 2007 19:51:08 GMT
If I ignore going into shops to buy my Mum's Tammy Wynette and Charley Pride records, then my first singles buy was, "Love is like Oxygen" by Sweet. Yes, it was the height of Glam Rock, and I loved it. Not what could be called the zenith of Glam Rock, like David Bowie and T-Rex, but the rather tacky, low-brow kind - Gary Glitter, for example (although at the age of 10, I wouldn't want to have been left alone with him for too long). First album, The Damned "Machine Gun Etiquette."
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Post by PinkFloyd on Feb 15, 2007 20:01:16 GMT
My era Fergus, don't underrate Sweet as live they are as heavy as hell.... real rockers man. Halcyon days back then, I was at school and Mud, Alvin Stardust, Gary Glitter, Sweet, Slade, Peters and Lee, David Bowie, T-Rex, Genesis etc. were all the rage.... I must confess that Peters and Lee never really got me tenting but some people liked them... halcyon days but I was a bit different from your normal 11 year old listening more to Pink Floyd, Juicy lucy, Hawkwind, Santana etc. etc. The poppy stuff was ok but I was more into the slightly off centre more in depth kinda stuff where one track would last 4 hours
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Post by Fergus on Feb 15, 2007 20:25:52 GMT
Christ, Mike, Alvin Stardust and Mud, that takes me back. Of course, you forgot the titans of this period, Showaddywaddy. My god, I'm humming "Tiger Feet"!!!
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Post by bennyboy on Apr 5, 2007 7:43:17 GMT
First 45 was Elvis; Hound Dog. First LP would have been Elton John; Yellow brick road. My age was 10 & 12. by the age of 14 I had pulled my head out of my ass and bought the Kinks; One for the road. By 15 I had all of Led Zeppelin, first Matallica lp, some Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Sex Pistols... ect. I did not find my true love ontil I found Yello and Mozart.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 5, 2007 12:16:30 GMT
You like Yello Benny? Hell man I have everything they've ever done plus a truckload of rare stuff including limited edition (number 006 of 3000) Yello - The CD single collection (on the windsong international label)
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Post by bennyboy on Apr 5, 2007 17:38:35 GMT
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 5, 2007 20:56:49 GMT
Yep! Love those two fools! I was cutting school one day (mid~early 80's) and hanging out in a record store when I heard them playing I Love You, I was hooked! And to my surprise, every lp they releasted was better than the last(mostly). In the last few years with Pocket Universe & The Eye, I'm totally dumfounded with there talent and SQ! You've got great taste Benny! I've been with these guys from day one too and still marvel at their ability and innovative style to this very day... in fact, I'm listening to "you gotta say yes to another excess" right this minute I agree, their albums just get better and better though Motion Picture never really got me going in the same way as Flag / One second did. Pocket Universe is superb and They Eye is an incredible recording with all those electronic artefacts on display all the way through it. Zebra is another one I'm very fond of.... to be honest though I love all of them but best of all the ones where they were singing the crazy lyrics.... true genius and the best thing to come out of Switzerland since cheese! I've got quite a few rare mixes Benny and if there's anything you don't already have please let me know...... I'll be glad to burn some for a fellow yello lover. "no more words!"
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